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BOX FOR TOOLS.

No. 350,016. Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

UNITED STATES GEORGE E. RICHARDS, OF FISKDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORTO THE SNELL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BOX FOR TOOLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,016, datedSeptember 28, 1886. I

Application filed March 10, 1886. Serial No. 194,749.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. RICHARDS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fiskdale, in the county of Worcester and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boxes forHolding Tools, of which the following is a specification.

For shipping boring-bits of various kinds it is customary, to a certainextent, to arrange 1O them in boxes in assorted sizes, the bits beingfastened by metallic spring-clips which engage their shanks, so as tohold them within the box and keep them apart, preventing injuriouscontact. This mode requires a spring for every bit, and has been founddefective by reason of the liability of the springs to become bent,weak, and ineffective, so that it is not uncommon in opening the box tofind the bits mingled in a confused mass, and consequently more or lessinjured.

My improvement consists in a box provided with a bar formed with anumber of groovesone for each bit-shank-and over this a bar similarlygrooved, so that,the bits being placed in position, the bar is shut downover them and there held by a spring or springs, fastening the whole setof bits securely in place. The box is preferably made double, each partbeing provided with the grooved clip-bars above described and the twoparts closed together, by which means a complete set of thirteen bits,running in sixteenths from a quarter of an inch to an inch, arecontained in a box of convenient dimensions.

In order that the invention may be fully understood, I will proceed todescribe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in whicl1-Figure I is a perspective View of a box of bits, the box being open, andone ofthe hinged clip-bars being elevated. Fig. II is a transversesection of the box closed, the line 11 II, Fig. I, indicating the planeof section. Fig. III illustrates a modification.

5 1 2 represent the two parts of a box, equal (No model.)

in height and secured together by customary hinges, 3, and a book, 4, orother suitable fastening. \Vithin each part of the box is a bridgebar,5, formed with grooves 6, for the reception of the shanks of the bits B.Over each bridge-bar 5 is a similarly-grooved clip-bar, 7, connected tothe back of the box by hinge 8, and fastened at its free end by aspring-catch, 9.

In placing the bits in the box their points are screwed into the end ofthe box,so as to secure this end and hold them against longitudinalmovement. The shanks being set in the seats prepared forthem, and theclip-bar closed over them, the bits are securely held out of contactwith one another, and when the box is to shut are adapted for securetransportation to any distance without other packing.

Two or more of the bridge-bars 5 and corresponding clip-bars, 7, may beprovided in each part of the box, if preferred, the grooves 6 5 orsockets in one of them being of suitable size and shape to receive theworm of the bit.

If preferred, the hinges 8 of the clip-bars may be dispensed with andthe bars secured at both ends by clips 9, as illustrated in Fig. III.

The invention is applicable to holding other tools than boring-bits,and, in fact, to any purpose Where a number of tools or like articlesare required to be held apart in parallel position for transportation orstorage.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as newtherein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The combination, with a box, of grooved bar 5, clip-bar 7, and anautomatic means for fastening bar 7 to bar 5.

2. The combination of the two parts 1 2 of the box, hinged together,grooved bridge-bar 5, hinged clip-bars 7, and spring-catch 9,substantially as and for the purpose set iorth.

GEO. E. RICHARDS.

YVitnesses:

RUFUs E. BOND, J OHN F. HEBARD.

